New York Art library

I arrived to the New York Art library at 11:00am my group and I waited for a while to Justine to come. When we went in I really expected the library to be bigger it is pretty small in comparison to others libraries in Manhattan. In the other hand it is very organize they have all the books in different sessions one of the collections that I really like was the film collection there were book that show the beginning of filming and how it involved through the time they show a lot of pictures of how the technology was changing and how it affect filming. They also have an interesting collection of how drawing begins and how the most famous cartoon figures were created. The library also counts with the a complete edition of Shakespeare work there are also collection of dance, drama, technology etc. the library has DVD collection of many subjects like comedies, training exercise DVDs, politics, history, movies etc and it counts also with two computer labs one on the front of the second floor and the other one in the back of the first floor. Being in the New York Art library was very interesting and fun even though I don’t like libraries this time was different I saw many interesting things.

A vision of students today

Is very sad to see this video and notice how everything they showed in there is true. The education that students receive is pretty bad, it's very depressing to see that teacher don't count the effort that the majority of students do to afford college and all the privation that many of us have to do. but that doesn't change things we still buying 1 to 3 books for just one class that we don’t need just as the guy on the video mention " I buy hundred dollar textbook that I never open" that's a lot of money waste and it is the same thing for every class. Besides that it’s not only the money that many of us waste on books and other college expensive its how the college manage our education. Being in a classroom of 115 or more students it’s very distractive, rooms that are so big and were you are far away from the professor make it more difficult for you to learn. It is a fact that the closer you are to a teacher the easier is for you to understand the class and the material but unfortunately most of the professors don’t know the students mane “18% of my teachers know my mane” that was the opinion of one of the girls in the videos. But what about technology it was mention on the video as a way to save us but I don’t agree with it because the main distraction for students is the technology. When you enter a classroom you can see that the majority of students playing with their laptop, text message or listen to music instead of paying attention to class. I definitely don’t agree with the point that technology is the only way to save us, it does help us with all the school work that we have to do that’s all.

...S!M0N3...

Simone is a very interesting movie it focus in the reality and how people belief everything they see. this movie show how a producer called victor created an actress by a computer program and make everyone belief she is real, people saw her in films, TV shows, commercial and interviews etc but nobody meet her personally besides victor who was his creator. even though nobody knew how she looked in reality everyone belief in her existence without question that she never appears in public. this justified that people aren't concern on the things they see they just belief everything they see and what people tell them. if someone shows then a picture and tell them that that person exist then they belief it because that's all they to belief that something is real. Simone have some connections with other movies like the matrix, Farscape,Star Trek because they all are based in reality how a group or one person can make others belief is something that don't exist. in all this movie someone manipulated people minds by showing them false images and information so that people belief in that particular thing. one thing that this film may say about Hollywood is that all you see are illusion of people being beautiful and perfect but in reality things are not as you see them in movies or comercial everything is make up.

Abre los ojos!!!

open your eyes is a very interesting movie even though it was hard to followed. in this movie you try to analyze how you differ from a dream to a real world. how you know that you are living in reality and not in a dream and I'm saying this because when you dream you see , feel, touch, think etc you have all your senses and if you have any type of supernatural ability in that dream it seem so normal that you don't know, you don't notice that in reality that particular ability is almost impossible to do. actually i don't know if people remember their dreams but in my case the dreams that i have remember in none of them i have had super power or something like that. in the case of Cesar he didn't have any special ability but he was experiencing difficult moment. in the movie Cesar was very confuse and disturbed because he didn't understand what he was living, why He was going through all those emotional stages he was really confused by the changes that happened in his life and didn't know how to confront them so he started solving his problems and finding clubs that could lead him to the answer to all his questions. i really like the end of the movie because nobody knows what happen the movie left the audience with different probabilities of what may happen at the end. maybe he regrets to die and decide to keep dreaming or maybe the whole movie was a dream and he wakes up at the end it gives you the freedom to choose the end you prefer for the movie.

103 Research Project

for my project i think i want to talk about how media use celebrities to manipulated and made people think the way media want them to think. all this because the majority of people are influence by celebrities and do everything they do. celebrities are always showed as role model to follow. and many people think that if the we do what they do we are going to be similar and may be have the same or be just like them. and for me that's some thing that people don't think about. they don't realize how media manipulate them .

virtual cinema

some thing that Star Trek episode "The Royale" and the Farscape Episode "A Human Reaction", have in common is that in both movies the actors don't have free will they and are enslave by thirds. this two movies show a very closely connection with "the matrix" all of them have similar elements and are based on unreal things. in the three movies the world or the place where the actors lived are false illusion, false images that were created with a different purpose.
in the star trek episode the three guys when to a place called earth to investigated and got trap there with no way out. in the movie the three guys experience a false illusion of an event that happen in the past where a murder was committed and they were there to kind of solve the problem so they could go home.
in the farscape episode the actor john was lost in space trying to find the way back to earth. when he found an space hole and when back to earth a chain of events happened. first he was capture by the government agency to find out if he was real or was an enemy of another planet or part of the Galaxy. second the government capture john's out of space friends to analyze them and make them talk to find out if they were their enemy suddenly the gov't killed one of john friend and take away another one so he scape with the girl to find his friend when he was searching for his friend he notice that he knew every person on the stree and realize that everything was an illusion form past experiences all this unreal world was created by an alien that was looking for a place for him and his people live and he needed to find out how would be human reaction of aliens going to earth.
in the matrix everything is also a false illusion an unreal world that was created by machine as a kind energy source. here neo the protagonist wake up from the unreal world to fight against the matrix and save humans.
all this three movies also show how all of them are enslave, how they to do what other want them to do. they don't have the free will to choose what they want. in the Star Trek episode they don't have an option they have forcely to find out what happen in that place to go back home. in the farscape episode john is manipulated by attacking his friends and force to whether save his friends or help the government and all this is controlled by aliens. and in the matrix neo don't have freedom also because he aether help to fight the matrix or go back to lived an illusion he don't have no other choice. the three movies are about unreal things, false illusion and in all of them they are manipulated and controlled by others.

* TH3 M@TR!X *

"The Matrix presents a version of an old philosophical fable: the brain in a vat. A disembodied brain is floating in a vat, inside a scientist's laboratory.
The brain is massively deluded, it seems. It has all sorts of false beliefs about the world. It believes that it has a body, but it has no body. It believes that it is walking outside in the sunlight, but in fact it is inside a dark lab. It believes it is one place, when in fact it may be somewhere quite different. Perhaps it thinks it is in Tucson, when it is actually in Australia, or even in outer space.
in The Matrix Neo's situation is something like this. He thinks that he lives in a city, he thinks that he has hair, he thinks it is 1999, and he thinks that it is sunny outside. In reality, he is floating in space, he has no hair, the year is around 2199, and the world has been darkened by war. There are a few small differences from the vat scenario above: Neo's brain is located in a body, and the computer simulation is controlled by machines rather than by a scientist. But the essential details are much the same. In effect, Neo is a brain in a vat" (Chalmers D, the matrix as metaphysics).

about me !!!

Hello!!! my name is Diana Montenegro, I'm 21 years old and I'm from Cali-Colombia. I've been in New York for almost 5 years. now I'm currently enrolled at LaGuardia Community College now my major is liberal arts while i transfer to John Jay College to major forensic psychology that is what I'm interesting in.